Have you met Andrew McDonnell yet? Andrew joined DataBlend in December and is DataBlend's brand-new Senior Director, Revenue, North America. We are so excited to add Andrew to the DataBlend team that we interviewed him for a fun Q&A. Read more about Andrew below.
Where are you from?
I’m from the Boston area and live in Southborough MA.
What’s your background?
I’m a failed auditor who started in sales after college and quickly regretted it. Early in my career I walked into a recruiting firm saying I wanted to get out of sales and become an accountant. A month later I was a recruiter for that firm helping CFO’s and controller hire accountants, and I never looked back.
Tell me about your role.
My role at DataBlend is to expand net new sales by helping more finance leaders become wildly successful by integrating their financial applications with our easy-to-use platform.
What are you most excited about working for DataBlend?
I have been around DataBlend since it first went to market in 2015, and it was an essential part of my sales motion at Adaptive Planning. To see it transform from a line item on an SOW, to a fast-growing company with hundreds of customers is amazing.
How has automation changed the way you work?
I’m so old that my first CRM system was Excel. The first time I had a real CRM that was best practice was critical in my career. I could research the person and the company, make the call, and afterwards, press one button that would record the activity, send an email, and schedule a follow up. It changed the game for me in terms of productivity and it’s my goal to have my customers experience be just as profound.
Three fun facts about Andrew!
- My blog will be called The Adaptation Game and focus on books that were made into movies.
- My favorite accounting movie is The Firm (adapted from the John Grisham novel). It’s also my favorite lawyer movie.
- My favorite sales movie is The Pursuit of Happyness.
Set-up time with Andrew!
Click here to set up time with Andrew. Or if you want to get an inside view of how DataBlend works, attend one of our weekly office hour demos.
